Booking is required. Boarding starts at Azumabashi Pier 30 min. before show time.

(If you are late, you cannot board the pleasure boat.)

October 3 (Tues) 19:00 – Kyu-Nakagawa Terrace

Booking is required. Please come to the venue 10 min. before show time to receive your ticket.

About the EVENT:

A seasonal feature spectacularly popular in the Edo period (1603-1867). A traditional entertainment performed on boats, Edo Magic Lantern is revived after 150 years. Magic Lantern is considered a predecessor of movies and anime. It is an Edo period science (visual technology) which started around 1802 as well as artistic entertainment.

The You-kiza’s evening riverboat Magic Lantern shows performed ghost stories for audiences on board, on the embankment, or on bridges, a cool way to spend the evening outdoors. We offer a special program held in a roofed pleasure boat by the Kyu-Nakagawa River terrace, where the ambience of pre-modern Edo can still be felt. The weaving of light and dark cre-ates the beautiful, mysterious, and frightening world of Edo Magic Lantern. Don’t miss this chance to see a rare delight.

Edo Magic Lantern Performances Another traditional art that Youkiza celebrates is magic lantern performance, which has a 200 year history. This art applies the media skills invented in Europe during the mid 17th century. Glass slides are inserted into a box-shaped projector and pictures are projected onto a screen. A number of mobile projectors are deployed together to create complex scenes.